Fossil whale skull hints at echolocation’s origins

Underwater sonar may have developed 34 million years ago

 

PING ME  The skull of the 28-million-year-old Cotylocara macei suggests that this early toothed whale used echolocation.

James Carew and Mitchell Colgan

The skull of a newly identified species of extinct toothed whale may help scientists piece together when echolocation evolved underwater.